After raising the bar at the 2023 World Cup, Indian batting superstar Virat Kohli earned the ICC ODI Player of the Year award for the fourth time. He has won the trophy in 2012, 2017, and 2018.
Notably, Kohli became the first cricketer in history to win this award four times, surpassing AB de Villiers' record of three victories. After making a stunning comeback in 2022, Virat Kohli excelled in ODIs and had an amazing 2023. He performed well enough to win the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 Player of the Tournament award at the end of the year.
In 36 international innings in 2023, Kohli scored 2,048 runs, marking a stunning comeback in his form. Despite India's heartbreaking defeat in the championship match, he was the top run scorer of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 and won Player of the Tournament.
In 2023, the 35-year-old player scored eight centuries in a variety of formats, one hundred more than the top run scorer Shubman Gill. Only Gill and Kohli have scored more than 2,000 runs in an international match; Gill dominated one-day internationals with a whopping 1584 runs.
He became the first cricket player to score 50 centuries in 50 overs when he famously broke Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most ODI hundreds at the World Cup.
